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Adamana, Arizona. Apr. 8, 1906. Dear Mr Calkins I am very glad to hear from you again sorry I am not at home in California
to welcome you there. Since I last wrote you my wife died my daughter Helen had a severe attack of pneumonia from which she
has not completely recovered but is getting well slowly. For her sake I have been in Arizona for nearly a year. Most of the
time on the high dry plateau about Adamana. My other daughter Wanda is here also most of the time the old home at Martinez
is closed. For a long time I was stunned deadly tired, but hard work in the wonderful petrified forests hereabouts has brought
back something of the hold free life with Mother Nature 09195